With the session ending, the EdChoice state team has given us a summary of all the recent happenings in the states. It's been an exciting year for school choice so far with seven states enacting new programs and nine states expanding their existing programs, seven of those nine being nearly universal.

Mike McShane, Colyn Ritter, and John Kristof talk about what's inside Schooling in America, including the data that stood out to them the most.

Mike McShane talks with Kelly Smith, CEO of the Prenda microschools and author of the book, A Fire to be Kindled. The two talk about how Smith started Prenda and the meaning behind his book title.

John Kristof talks with Mike McShane about his new report with Nicole Stelle Garnett at the Manhattan Institute titled, Implementing K–12 Education Savings Accounts Is Really Simple. They talk about the new wave of school choice and the expansion of education savings accounts across the country.

Members of the EdChoice team discuss the recent publication, The 123s of School Choice, an in-depth review of the available research on private school choice programs in America.

If you need a rundown on the latest litigation involving school choice across the states, the EdChoice state team has you covered in this podcast.

In this monthly tracker podcast, EdChoice team members discuss the new question added to the poll about a four day school week while also reflecting on the past school year.

Our own team member and former elementary school teacher, Margo Foster joins the podcast to discuss the results from this month's teacher survey.

Highschool Senior Patrick McGrath joins EdChoice team members, John Kristof and Colyn Ritter, to discuss the findings from the latest survey on teenagers today.

In part two of a collaboration with RISE Reports podcast and ASU+GSV, Curtis Valentine and panelists, Sharif El-Mekki and Matthew Mugo Fields discuss in detail what schooling, education, and learning look like in the future.

In part 2 of this two part series, PPI’s Reinventing America’s Schools (RAS) Project Co-Director Curtis Valentine, in collaboration with EdChoice, sits down for a live panel conversation and podcast recording at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego with Sharif El-Mekki, Chief Executive Officer at The Center for Black Educator Development, and Matthew Mugo Fields, General Manager of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, HMH and President of Heinemann Publishing. They discuss the future of education, the future of teaching, and importance of school choice for families across America. 

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